Apion

male, deceased (45)
Alexandria, Grammarian, anti-Semitic, ancient greek, homer, Jewish person…Alexandria, Egypt
Apion (20s BC - ca. 45 AD), Graeco-Egyptian grammarian, sophist and commentator on Homer, was born at the Siwa Oasis, and flourished in the first...
Youssef Chahine

Youssef Chahine

male, 83 years old
director, Berlinale, The Emigrant, Alexandria, Again and Again, Carthage Film Festival, Egyptian film industry…Cinema of Egypt, Alexandria, Egypt, from Alexandria, Alexandria University
Youssef Chahine (born January 25, 1926 in Alexandria, Egypt) is an Egyptian film director active in the Egyptian film industry since 1950.

Philo

male, deceased (50)
Yedidia, Hellenized Jewish, Hellenistic Judaism, Jews and Judaism-related controversy, Christology, logos…Alexandria, Egypt
Philo (20 BC - 50 AD), known also as Philo of Alexandria and as Philo Judaeus And as Yedidia, was a Hellenized Jewish philosopher born in...
Sostratus Of Cnidus

Sostratus Of Cnidus

male
engineer, architect, ancient greek, hellenistic, island, Lighthouse builder…lighthouse of alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt
Sostratus of Cnidus (born 3rd century BC), was a Hellenistic architect and engineer. He designed the lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven...
Saint Apollonia

Saint Apollonia

female, deceased (249)
decius, toothache, Christian martyr of the Roman era, Christian, historian, Egyptian…Alexandria, Egypt, bishop of Alexandria, Alexandria
Saint Apollonia was one of a group of virgin martyrs who suffered in Alexandria during a local uprising against the Christians prior to the...

Basilides

male
Irenæus, Agrippa Castor, early Christian, hippolytus, gospel, early christianity…Alexandria, Egypt
Basilides was an early Christian religious teacher in Alexandria, Egypt. He apparently wrote twenty-four books on the Gospel and promoted a dualism...
Isidore Of Miletus

Isidore Of Miletus

male
Tralles, Aydin, miletus, hagia sophia, ceb Isidoro sa Miletus, Alexandria, Egypt
Isidore of Miletus was the architect who together with Anthemius of Tralles designed Hagia Sophia in Constantinople (today's Istanbul). The Emperor...

Menelaus Of Alexandria

male, deceased (140)
greek, Alexandria, mathematician, Egyptian, Ancient mathematician, Astronomer…Alexandria, Egypt
Menelaus of Alexandria (c. 70 - 140) was a Greek mathematician and astronomer, the first to recognize geodesics on a curved surface as natural...
Vittorio Rieti

Vittorio Rieti

male, deceased (1994)
Neoclassicism, naturalized citizen of the United States, composer, Italian, tonal, naturalized citizen…Alexandria, Egypt
Vittorio Rieti (January 28, 1898 - February 19, 1994) was an Italian composer. Born in Alexandria, Egypt, Rieti and moved to Milan to study...

Louis Thuillier

male, deceased (1883)
Alexandria, Biologist, French, vaccination, physics, anthrax…Alexandria, Egypt
Louis Thuillier (May 4, 1856 - September 19, 1883) was a French biologist from Amiens. He studied biology and physics in Amiens and Paris, and in...